How Much Of What Falls Will Be Left When It Gets To The Ground? - by Carolyn Guinzio (Paperback)

About the Book

Carolyn Guinzio's How Much of What Falls Will Be Left When It Gets To The Ground? interlaces a series of questions, possibilities, and scenarios that address the various "times and places" of memory-how it is stored, lost, reinvented, mythicized, and how a person is shaped and reshaped by this process.

Book Synopsis

Carolyn Guinzio's How Much of What Falls Will Be Left When It Gets To The Ground? interlaces a series of questions, possibilities, and scenarios that address the various "times and places" of memory--how it is stored, lost, reinvented, mythicized, and how a person is shaped and reshaped by this process, like a piece of clay forever spinning under the shaking potter's hands. But through the play she makes of words, images, and places, Guinzio reminds us that despite what turns out by the end, there is beauty in both the process and the result.

Review Quotes

"In Carolyn Guinzio's poems, amid the trees, leaves, squirrels, deer, cicadas, the house, the laptop, milk and children, the elderly and doctors, there is always... this... persistent something. As Guinzio steps forward in the poem's line, then takes one step back to insist and repeat, the something beneath becomes clear: it is bone, shadow, and ash. The dead. An end. Oblivion. Yet an end to things does not shape her poems into vessels for grief and sinking sorrow; it is, rather, the material of life, itself. Even oblivion maintains a sweet movement of its own. For Guinzio, to leave no trace is "not the white of surrender, / but the green of remember: / You are one in a line of many." Thank you, Carolyn Guinzio, for this astonishing reminder."

Layli Long Soldier, author of WHEREAS

"In this book Carolyn Guinzio creates a world out of elements far beyond language on a page. Maps, photos, collage, typographical art, all intertwine as poetry of breathtaking freshnessnes and depth. This hybrid work is a beautiful exploration of the meaning of place, both present and past. How Much of What Falls Will Be Left When It Gets To The Ground? is a wildly layered memory book that demands to be returned to again and again."

Jacob Shores-Argüello, author of Paraiso